#academicfreedom — Public Fediverse posts
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At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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#Rutgers yanked alum Rami Elghandour’s engineering school graduation invite over pro-Palestine social posts he wasn’t even planning to mention in his speech. We’re watching a livestreamed genocide, and unis are worried about hurting the feelings of people backing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/rutgers-cancel-graduation-speech-pro-palestine-post
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School boards and universities will both be affected by Ontario’s Bill 101 sweeping changes
#Ontario #Canada #Bill101 #Education #Politics #PublicPolicy #Universities #Schools #Students #Teachers #AcademicFreedom #PolicyReform #HigherEducation #StudentData
https://the-14.com/school-boards-and-universities-will-both-be-affected-by-ontarios-bill-101-sweeping-changes/ -
A quotation from Henry Commager
We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom
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"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations
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#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes back historian #RashidKhalidi to talk about #ColumbiaUniversity's entente with the #Trump Administration, #Columbia's measures to bring in "outside monitors," and how powerful donors and neoliberal management models are affecting humanities departments and #MiddleEastStudies.
#studentProtests #ColumbiaU #academicFreedom #campusActivism #stateRepression #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #USpolitics #UShigherEd @palestine @israel
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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved
#HackerNews #HarvardSlaveryResearch #SlaveryTies #HistoricalInjustice #AcademicFreedom #EthicalResearch
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2 #professors from #Rutgers University in #NJ went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for #BigTen schools.
The professors—1 teaches chemistry in Camden, the other psychology in Newark—said they were frustrated by #Trump’s abrupt cuts to #research #funding & its efforts to dictate #policy on some campuses.
They were also troubled by the lack of a unified response by #university leaders.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregion/rutgers-mdc-big-10.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=538E3356-8E4C-43C0-A26D-93CCA3B0137D -
News from a prominent campus (SUNY Stony Brook) near my hometown on Long Island: “Suffolk County Police Silence Critics by Harassing a Professor and Bullying Stony Brook University”
#policing #academia #academicfreedom #SUNYStonyBrook #LongIsland #SuffolkCounty